July 04, 2023

Fortune Teller Baba (S2E12)

44 minutes

Did Fortune Teller Baba inspire John Wick? Did she? Let's be honest about it...

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 69 and 70, "Who is Fortune Teller Baba?" and "We are the Five Warriors." We pick up the trail of the final Dragon Ball and start to bridge Dragon Ball into the afterlife.

In this episode:

Jelli and Bekinney make a bet

We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments

The first example of Goku inspiring allies to refocus their training efforts

Breaking down the contradictions of Baba's Palace and how male and female, living and dead, and beauty and desolation mingle

The inspiration behind Obake, Baba's ghost usher, from Obake no Q-Taro and Ultra Q

Goku's classic inability to get ceremonial titles correct

Whether Baba, which means crone in Japanese, is a pejorative term

The history of Fortune Tellers in Eastern culture, including the movie The Lost World of Sinbad (aka Samurai Pirate)

How Baba may be mildly inspired by the Baba Yaga

And then we discuss our main talking point of the day, which is how we feel about this arc really introducing the concept of the afterlife and spirits living beyond life into the Dragon Ball universe

and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual

Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.

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